Complete the sentence: Deer are () hunters.

• A. Shot by
• B. Shooting
• C. Shot
• D. Shoots

Answer: (A)

This focuses on forming the passive voice with a past participle. When the subject receives the action, you use a form of “to be” plus the past participle, and you can add an agent with “by.” For a plural subject like deer, the correct verb form is “are.” The past participle of shoot is “shot,” so the natural completion is “Deer are shot by hunters,” meaning hunters perform the action and the deer receive it. The other options don’t fit: “Shooting” would create an incorrect, active-like form; “Shot” alone leaves the sentence incomplete without the passive verb structure; and “Shoots” mismatches number and voice.